Belt-tool.



PATENTED APR. 23, 1907 E. E. BARNETT.

BELT TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED DINA/1,1908.

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EDGAR E. BARNETT, OF KREMLIN, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

BELT-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

Application filed December 14, 1906. Serial No. 347,851.

To aZZ whom Lt may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDGAR E. BARNETT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident 0t Kremlin, in the county of Garfield, Okla- I homa Territory, have invented a new and Improved Belt-Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improved belt tool having means for punching and cutting holes in the ends of a belt such as are generally pro vided to receive the lacing; also embodying in its construction a device for drawing the lacing through these holes in the belt, and lacing the ends thereof together.

The object of the invention is to combine the above means into a unitary, simple structure in the manner that they can be successfully used without interference with each other, and to further provide for the adjust ment of the' punch to cut holes of varying size, and the enclosing or encasing of the punch when the same is not in use.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved tool partly in central section, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the punch.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a hollow or tubular handle 1, having formed preferably as an integral part at its upper end, an offset jaw 2, the connecting portion between the handle 1 and jaw 2 preferably being disk-shaped as is usual 1n plier construction. 3 indicates a second handle,

which is arranged by the side of the handle 1 and is preferably "formed as a long, conical body slightly shorte than the handle 1 and providing an awl or other pointed instrument. The handle 3 is constructed with a disk portion 4, which is pivotally connected at us center to the offset portion of the handle 1 by a screw or other device 5. The disk 4 is extended beyond the screw or pivot 5, where it is formed into a jaw 2 in all respects alike and opposed to the jaw 2.

The handle 1 is provided with a longitudinal slot 6, from which project at one side a series of L-shaped notches 7. This slot and the adjacent notches are for the purpose of I receiving the body of a screw or pin 8 threaded into the shank of a punch 9. The punch 9, as best shown in Fig. 2, is in the nature of a pointed body preferably of semi-conical form, which will, as is obvious, cut a round hole in a piece 01 leather when forced through it and given one or more turns. The shank of the punch 9, which is cylindrical to slidably lit the bore of the hollow handle, is connected to a screw-threaded plug 10 threaded into the opposite end ol' the handle, through the intermediary of a spiral spring 11, said spring tending at all times to draw the punch within the handle, which acts as a protective casing for the punch when the latter is not in use.

In the use of the punch, it is withdrawn to project beyond the end of the handle a dis tance according to the size of the hole to be cut, and locked in this position by turning it to engage the screw 8 with one of the notches 7. The punch can now be forced through the material to be out until the end of the handle 1 is reached, which will perform the function of a stop and enable the user to make any number of holes required of uniform size. When the screw 8 and its engaged notch 7 are disengaged, the spring 11 will withdraw the punch within the handle, as is obvious.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A belt tool comprising a hollow handle having a longitudinal slot therein with notches formed in one edge of the slot, a punch slidably fitting the handle having means for engaging said slot and notches, a plug threaded in the end of the handle opposite the punch, and a spring connecting the plug and punch together.

2. A belt toelcomprising a hollow handle, a punch slidably fitting the handle, means for adjustably locking the punch within the handle comprising a plurality of L-shaped notches, and a projection carried by the punch, and a spring normally tending to draw the punch within the handle.

3. A belt tool comprising a hollow handle, a tapered punch having a shank slidably fitting the handle, means for locking the punch ICC Within the handle to project Varying dis name to this specification in the presence of tanoes beyond the end thereof whereby the & two subscribing witnesses.

end of the handle will form a stop adapting l the punch to out uniform openings of Various EDGAR BARNETT sizes and a spring normally tending to drawthe punch within the handle. 1

Witnesses M. SPALDING, WVM. lVICCOY.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 

